Sofia Frentz writes an important piece on the tireless and ultimately exhausting pursuit of “normalcy” and achievement, that high functioning individuals with chronic mental illness put themselves through in academia. She offers some thought provoking insights on what helped her break that cycle.

This article in The Atlantic questions popular opinion and research evidence regarding the links between mental illness (and psychological vulnerability) and grad school attrition, and focuses instead, on systemic or institutional factors that maybe exacerbating such attrition.

In this blog Margarita Tartakovsky, discusses her initial thoughts on the concept of radical self-acceptance and what that might look like, especially in the context of mental health struggles that are chronic.